Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick, then a young staff photographer for LOOK Magazine, set out to capture the daily grind of New York City's subway commuters in 1946.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick, then a young staff photographer for LOOK Magazine, set out to capture the daily grind of New York City's subway commuters in 1946.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

Passengers rode this subway car with newspapers in hand.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

A passenger catches up on the news during his commute.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

Passengers in a subway car, 1946.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

People on escalators in a subway station, 1946.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

A woman waits for her train at the Canal Street station in 1946.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

A woman asleep on a Subway car--a common site then and now.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

A crowded subway commute for New Yorkers.
For more information on the Museum of the City of New York visit http://www.mcny.org. Stories the City Tells Itself: The Video Art and photography of Neil Goldberg has just been extended through June 19, and Activist New York, the inaugural exhibition in the Puffin Foundation, opens on May 4th.